Re: Installing git?

Even if you compile git from source (to get the latest), it is still wise to install as many of those other libraries as possible using “apt-get install ___”. This is faster, easier, will get future upgrades to the libraries automatically, and will make them available to other packages that need them.
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Any progress on this?

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody had made any progress on this. I would really like to be able to use Git on my Westhost Account. I have tried setting the configure prefix=$Home so that I wouldn't need root privileges but this still doesn't work. If anybody has any more ideas it would sure be great. Thanks!

git install

I just installed git on my westhost account and it seems to be working fine. Here are the steps I used:

./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-tcltk
make
make install

Without tcltk prevents git from trying to build the git gui which wouldn't do any good here anyway. I tried installing to the normal /usr/local location, but ran into problems with the install script trying to change permissions on root-owned directories. If you install in your home directory, you may need to add '~/bin' to your path.

I was wondering if anybody had made any progress on this. I would really like to be able to use Git on my Westhost Account. I have tried setting the configure prefix=$Home so that I wouldn't need root privileges but this still doesn't work. If anybody has any more ideas it would sure be great. Thanks!

3 years later, still can't git. I did what was suggested in this thread (took out tcltk and bindir_SQ) and no dice.